Growing Roots
When I was growing up, had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He was a lot nicer than circumstances warranted.
When Dr. Gibbs wasn't saving lives, he was planting trees. His life's goal was to make it a forest.
The good doctor had some interesting theories concerning plant husbandry. He came from the "No pain, no gain" school of horticulture. He never watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled them, and that if you water them, each successive tree generation will grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things rough for them and weed out the weenie trees early on.
He talked about how watering trees made for shallow roots, and how trees that weren't watered had to grow deep roots in search of moisture. I took him to mean that deep roots were to be treasured.
So he never watered his trees. Dr. Gibbs went to glory a couple of years after I left home. The tress which he grew is strong now. Big and robust. Those trees wake up in the morning and beat their chests and drink their coffee black.
I planted a couple of trees a few years back, carrying water to them for a solid summer, sprayed them, prayed over them. Two years of coddling has resulted in trees that expect to be waited on hand and foot. Whenever a cold wind blows in, they tremble and chatter their branches.
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